IMAGE
Wrecked Italian aeroplane, and soldier searching for land mines, Tripoli, Libya, World War 2
- Date
- ca Dec 1942
- By
- Paton, Harold Gear, 1919-2010
- Reference
- DA-06912-F
- Description
Unidentified New Zealand sapper searching an Axis landing ground in Tripoli, Libya, for land mines and booby traps. A wrecked Italian aeroplane is alongside. Photographed by H Paton circa 1942.
Note on back of file print reads: "...in December as the 8 Army advances on Tripoli"
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Film negative
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency / World War 1939-1945 official negatives - DA Series
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Film negative, Orientation: Horizontal image
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Paton, Harold Gear, 1919-2010. Wrecked Italian aeroplane, and soldier searching for land mines, Tripoli, Libya, World War 2. New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency. Ref: DA-06912-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22705624More information can be found in our terms of use.